Pneumatic Drill/Speeding Train Ringtones: Elderly Are Game

by Tanya Thomas on  June 06, 2010 at 9:44 AM Senior Health News
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Ringtones as loud as a pneumatic drill or a speeding train is catching up with the elderly.

The Geemarc Clearsound CL8200,which has a top volume of 1,000 decibels, has been designed for the millions of elderly people who find modern mobile phones far too complex as well as far too quiet.

It is understood to be the loudest mobile phone on the market.

The phone, which has been manufactured by the British Company in Hertfordshire, has been on sale for a few months at specialist websites including the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, which says it has sold thousands.

Hearingdirect.com, which sells discounted hearing aids and other accessories, said that it had seen twice as many visitors to its site since the phone was launched.

"We have found a lot of our customers who are hard of hearing were fed up with the amount of unnecessary technology on other mobile phones and wanted a simple phone they could hear ringing, make calls and receive texts. They were tired of missing calls because they could not hear the ring and fiddling with small buttons. We think it's going to be a big seller," the Telegraph quoted Jamie Murray Wells, the chairman of HearingDirect.com, as saying.

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05/23/2011

1,000 decibels? This has clearly been written by somebody that doesn't have a clue about sound.



SSample(Guest)

10/11/2010

A thousand decibels? Try 100 maybe? That's the volume of of a motorcycle. The loudest sound possible is 194dB. 1000 simply cannot be done by man nor machine.




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